Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education and Training

According to a new AAMC study, 76% of students graduate with debt. And while that percentage has decreased in the last few years, those who do borrow for medical school face big loans: the median debt was $192,000 in 2018. At private schools, 21% of students have debt of $300,000 or more. The average four-year cost for public school students is $243,902. For private school students, the cost is $322,767. Many medical students in debt marry other medical students in debt. Do the math and the implications of career and family planning, housing and specialty choice.

Accomodating the Market Demand for Non-Clinical Career Opportunities

Medical students are forgoing residencies, practitioners are abbreviating their clinical careers, side gigs and hustles are hot and many want to create patient value other than seeing 20 a day for their entire career. Physician entrepreneurship is finally getting its rightful due, yet few medical schools offer education and training in it, let alone the business of medicine. There are few entrepreneurial medical schools.

Declining Revenues From Research Grants, Clinal Earnings and State Support

Tom Phillip

Jennifer Grace

Alisha Yates

Medicine used to be in the hands of the shaman, and paperwork was never a part of it. These are the exact reasons why I lean towards Law instead of neurosurgery; even the most complicated surgical technicians are bound by the beaurocracy of our healthcare system.﻿

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Susannah Bailin

Bravo! My daughter graduated last May and is in her first year of residency. You are exactly right. In addition, there aren't enough spots for brilliant applicants due to the focus on the MCAT and grades without any correlation to the difficulty of the class ie. particular college /university. As a healthcare entrepreneur, I applaud you for including #2!

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Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA

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Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org. He has created several medical device and digital health companies. His primary research centers around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and life science technology commercialization. He consults for and speaks to companies, governments, colleges and universities around the world who need his expertise and contacts in the areas of bio entrepreneurship, bioscience, healthcare, healthcare IT, medical tourism -- nationally and internationally, new product development, product design, and financing new ventures. He is a former Harvard-Macy fellow and In 2010, he completed a Fulbright at Kings Business, the commercialization office of technology transfer at Kings College in London. He recently published "Building the Case for Biotechnology." "Optical Detection of Cancer", and " The Life Science Innovation Roadmap". He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology and Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape. In addition, He is a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver Graduate School where he teaches Biomedical Entrepreneurship and is an iCorps participant, trainer and industry mentor. He is the Chief Medical Officer at www.bridgehealth.com and www.cliexa.com and Chairman of the Board at GlobalMindED at www.globalminded.org, a non-profit at risk student success network. He is honored to be named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives of 2011 and nominated in 2012 and Best Doctors 2013.

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